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Magnitude SEVEN 2007

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Executive Director

Jason Franz

Board of Directors

Katherine DintenfassJason FranzElizabeth KauffmanBrigid O’KaneAndy Schaub

Associate Directors

Kristin CullenKevin Muente

Junior Board

Trevor PonderJeffrey Salter

Interns

Lynda CampKate HolterhoffKarina MezaAmanda Nurre

Mission Statement:

Manifest enhances the role of art and design insociety by cultivating and focusing the transforma-tive power of creativity in the visual arts. Manifestbenefits people in the global and local community,including professionals, students, and the public, bycreating quality-centered experiences focused oncontemporary visual arts and related activities in thecontext of creative exploration.

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each work of art reproduced herein are retained by the artist.

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center2727 Woodburn Avenue, P.O. Box 6218, Cincinnati, OH 45206

(513) 861-3638

First Printing - May 2007, edition of 90Designed by Jason Franz

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Cover image by Anna Kipervaser

Magnitude SEVEN3rd Annual

June 8 - July 6

Natalya Aikens

Rebeca Alvarado

Julie Anderson

Samantha DiRosa

Susan Ewing

Kim Flora

Nathaniel Fowles

Sarah Harvey

Angela Katona-Batchelor

Sun Kyoung Kim

Anna Kipervaser

Ron Kroutel

Matt Liston

Richard Luschek

Julie Mader-Meersman

Jillian Moore

Brent Payne

Mary Penn

Jon Radermacher

Alex Roulette

Christian Routh

Amy Rublaitus

Octavia Sharp

Taylor Stephenson

Isaac Sullivan

John Tallman

Tina Tammaro

Rob Thompson

Paul Vogeler

Ruth Wartman

co-curated by Jason Franz and Jeffrey Salter

Curatorial Statem

ent by Jeffrey SalterIt’s likely that most artists, art historians, collectors, and connoisseurs will tell you that their first,intuitive considerations of a work are formal ones, and that in addition to color, line, and shape,size is integral to forming the character of an object and its relationship to a viewer. Some willexpress a preference for large works of art, extolling a Rothko or Diebenkorn with mentions ofdrama and sublimity, an ineffable feeling of sharing physical space with a work, of being insideit. And, certainly, works executed on a large scale can have the effect of a spectacle, over-whelming a viewer and affording a measure of intimacy that is as humbling as it is captivating.

But larger works can sometimes proscribe the intimacy of closeness. And striking audienceswith the formidability of a canvas, grandiosity can miss in achieving what seems to be theessence of a viewer’s experience – to not only look at a work, but into it with a purpose of truediscovery. The works in this season’s Magnitude Seven invite this kind of discovery as only smallworks can, insisting on proximity and disclosing themselves in exchange for looking closer.

In the work of Angela Katona-Batchelor, one is afforded the experience of literally unfoldingsecret forms; in the photographs of Matt Liston viewers are met with stark skyscapes to beinvestigated for details of stippled clouds and stainless architectures. Elsewhere, in works suchas those by Amy Rublaitus and Brent Payne closer inspection yields an understanding of facture,calling attention to rich textures and retiform patterns of hurried lines. In these and in all of theworks selected for this exhibition, there is a sense that, as viewers, we are being called to lookinto every detail of these diminutive compositions, to see every atomistic mark, to notice all thelittle vestiges of physicality leading back to the gestures of the creating hand and mind. And solooking closely becomes a discovery not only of the microscopic definition of a work, but alsoa means to discovering what details reveal the character of its creation—the reflections of itsown coming to life.

Encouraging audiences to examine work with deliberate, careful attention echoes Manifest’sown mission to highlight the transformative power of creativity in the visual arts, as this juriedselection of artwork not only demonstrates outstanding creativity through limitation, but alsothe capacity for small works to effect a profound change in a viewer’s experience.

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To its third annual small works exhibition Manifestreceived 350 entries from 143 artists in 26 statesand the UK. These were passed through a 5 personjury and subsequent curatorial process. The resultingexhibit presents 50 works by 30 artists fromCalifornia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee,Washington, Washington D.C., and the UnitedKingdom.

670 works of art have been submitted to Manifest’sMagnitude SEVEN since June 2005. Including thisthird installment of the annual exhibit, 112 works bya total of seventy three artists from all over the U.S.and beyond have been exhibited in this project.

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